Instead, the film version of the best-selling novel 'The Fault in Our Stars' feels emotionally inert, despite its many. It should be passionate, engrossing, suspenseful, somethingeven unabashed melodrama would have been appropriate, given the subject matter. So at least there are some really good tunes to accompany those tears.įor a more comprehensive rundown for why everyone's freaking out about TFIOS, visit our friends at The Huffington Post and catch the trailer here. It should be agonizing, this tale of doomed love between cancer-stricken teens.

The soundtrack is awesome: Ed Sheeran, M83, Lykke Li, Birdy, and many more contributed sweet tracks ( see it here). The actors had to do a lot of crying in The Fault in Our Stars, but apparently, it was John Green, the author of the book on which the film is based, who cried the most on. But there's no time like the summer to indulge in a sweeping love story, right? And this one's for the record books, guys. It's an epic romance: You're going to cry. She screws everybody.'), and characters that are fleshed out, but still come off as real people.Ĥ. It's a cancer love story, but not in the 'usual cancer love story' sorta way: Green set out to write an 'unsentimental' cancer novel, and the film has stayed true to that desire, with smart, fresh dialogue ('What a slut time is.

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